Several local Muslim leaders recently held a meeting with Muslim high school students, and the Paris terrorist attacks quickly became a topic of conversation. Adam Soltani, executive director of the Oklahoma chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations, said the gathering was a planned session of a CAIR-sponsored program for high school students. But it came at a good time, because the students needed to talk about anti-Muslim/anti-Islam rhetoric bandied about in the aftermath of the terrorist attacks, he said. Soltani said most recently, such rhetoric has resurfaced with the news that law enforcement officials believe at least one of the suspects in a mass shooting Wednesday in San...
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